Roy Robert Wilson

Forenames

Roy Robert AWMM

Surname

Wilson AWMM

Service number

WWI 24/1869 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

H.B. Wilson (father), Opotiki, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 24/1869 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Carpenter/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 08 Jan 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 38 or HMNZT 39 AWMM Vessel was Tahiti or Warrimoo AWMM Rifleman AWMM 3rd Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion, F Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Entrenching Battalion AWMM

Roy Robert Wilson was the son of Henry Brougham Wilson and Eliza Wilson, of Richard St., Opotiki, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mr H. B. Wilson, Richard St, Opotiki (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

7 May 1918 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Buttes New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22022069
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737574/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737574
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  16: 10
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.